West Virginia Rural Community Health Scholars

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The West Virginia Rural Community Health Scholars is a program for health professions students in West Virginia that offers opportunities for hands-on training, experience in rural communities, and networking with other students and professionals.

The program requires a 2 year commitment and consists of:

• 40 hours of community-based experiential or clinical training in a rural or healthcare shortage area (CBSE)
• 40 hours of didactic education
• 20 hours of rural immersion experience

Participants will:

• Build leadership skills in the profession and in the community
• Receive supplemental training and education from experts in rural healthcare
• Develop an understanding of how to best implement healthcare services in rural and healthcare shortage areas
• Learn how to work as part of an interprofessional team
• Provide meaningful patient care in the field and gain hands-on experience

Students should have an interest in rural healthcare and be currently enrolled in an eligible health professions degree or certificate program in West Virginia.

Specific health professions students are eligible to apply.

• Community health worker
• Dentistry, DDS
• Exercise physiology, BS
• Medicine, MD, DO
• Nursing, BSN, RN, NP
• Nutrition/dietetics, BS
• Pharmacy, PharmD
• Physical therapy, DPT
• Physician assistant, MPAS
• Clinical and Counseling Psychology, MA/MS, PsyD, PhD
• Public health, MPH, PhD, DrPH
• Resident
• Social work, MSW

Benefits are described on the program website.

Participants will receive a $1,150 participation award.

A link to the online application form is available on the program website.